Extremist group claims Athens bombs

Last updated at 11:19 13 May 2004

A Greek extremist fringe group called the "Revolutionary Struggle" has said they were behind three bomb blasts in Athens last week. The group said they were protesting against heavy security measures ahead of this summer's Olympics.

"Revolutionary Struggle", which put a bomb outside Athens courts in September that injured a police officer, told the weekly newspaper "To Pontiki" its action was a response to Olympic security plans.

The late-night bombs, made of dynamite, a detonator and a clock, damaged a police station

in Kallithea but caused no injuries.

"With regard to the Olympic Games we say that Greece's transformation into a fortress, NATO's involvement, the presence and activities of foreign intelligence units show clearly that (the Olympics) are not a festival like Games organisers say, but it's a war," it said.